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...metres (8 feet) and 300 kg in the male, 1.8 metres and 120 kg (265 pounds) in the female. Like the northern form, southern fur seals are gregarious and carnivorous. By the late 1970s about 14,000
South American fur seals (
A. australis) were being harvested annually. Other species, including the once-numerous New Zealand fur seal (
A. forsteri), the Galapagos fur seal (
A....